Dombar Hills, North Kazachstan (Carboniferous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (50.3° N, 57.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 38.2° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: E1 zone, Pendleian (326.4 - 318.1 Ma)

• no formation name given.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow wackestone and marl

• blastoid limestone main composed of the entice calices...interbedded with yellowish marls, easily weathering.

Primary reference: Y. A. Arendt, A. Breimer, and D. B. Macurda. 1968. A new blastoid fauna from the lower Namurian of North Kazachstan (U.S.S.R.). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen. Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Anthropology 71(3):159-174 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8421: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.07.2000, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Authors imply that they are relying at least in part on the observations of other scientists as to what cephalopod fauna is present. They also concentrated on cephalopods and blastoids, mentioning there were other taxa present (brachs, bryozoans, corals, etc.) but made no effort to ID or list them except one tabulate coral.
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
unclassified
  -
Coelenterata indet. Hatschek 1888
several sp. corals including tabulates
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Temnocheilidae
"Temnocheilus coronatiforme" = Temnocheilus coronatiformae
"Temnocheilus coronatiforme" = Temnocheilus coronatiformae Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
Rineceras sp. Hyatt 1893 nautiloid
sp. 1 and sp. 2
Rineceras canaliculatum Eichwald 1857 nautiloid
Epistroboceras chancharense Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Epistroboceras gracile Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Subclymenia ornata Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Lispoceras proconsul n. sp. Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Tylonautilus mergus Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
? Epidomatoceras vivum Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Epidomatoceras doohylense Foord 1900 nautiloid
 Nautilida -
Pseudostenopoceras lenticulare Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Ephippioceratidae
Ephippioceras sphaericum Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
Peripetoceras cautum Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Liroceras ruzhencevi Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Bistrialites bimembris Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida -
Catastroboceras consanguineum n. sp. Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Catastroboceras subsulcatiformae Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Catastroboceras quadratum Fleming 1828 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Centroceratidae
? Diorugoceras egregium Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Phacoceras semirutum Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
Phacoceras electum Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Mosquoceratidae
Articheilus sp. Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Koninckioceratidae
Knightoceras lena Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Aipoceratidae
Asymptoceras sp. Ryckholt 1852 nautiloid
Asymptoceras pyxis Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Scyphoceratidae
Scyphoceras primulum Shimanskiy 1967 nautiloid
 Bactritida - Bactritidae
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Paraloxoceras lidiae
authors have it spelled Paralaxoceras, not that spelling in Sepkos.
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Brachycycloceratidae
 Orthocerida -
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
 Orthocerida -
 Oncocerida -
 Oncocerida - Poterioceratidae
 Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae
"Epicanites aktubensis" = Praedaraelites aktubensis
"Epicanites aktubensis" = Praedaraelites aktubensis Ruzhentsev 1949 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae
Prolecanites librovitchi Ruzhentsev 1949 ammonite
Dombarocanites chancharensis Ruzhentsev 1949 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Uralopronorites mirus Librovitch 1949 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Berkhoceratidae
Kazakhoceras hawkinsi Moore 1930 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae
Dombarites tectus Librovitch 1957 ammonite
Platygoniatites molaris Ruzhentsev 1956 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Rhymmoceratidae
Rhymmoceras vermiculatum Ruzhentsev 1958 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae
Tympanoceras trisulcatum Ruzhentsev 1958 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Irinoceras arcuatum Ruzhentsev 1947 ammonite
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Blastoidea
 Fissiculata -
Mastoblastus ornatus n. gen. n. sp., Kazachstanoblastus carinatus n. gen. n. sp.
Mastoblastus ornatus n. gen. n. sp. Arendt et al. 1968 blastoid
Kazachstanoblastus carinatus n. gen. n. sp. blastoid
 Fissiculata - Phaenoschismatidae
? Phaenoschisma rossica n. sp. blastoid
 Fissiculata - Codasteridae
Codaster shimanskii n. sp. blastoid